Warning About Omicron Variant: It’s Still Killing

With the effect of the Omicron variant, the number of cases is increasing rapidly all over the world, and new explanations for the variant continue to come every day. Finally, he made a statement the other day that the reminder doses are not sustainable. world Health Organization, also stated that the variant being referred to as ‘less severe’ today does not mean that the variant is not lethal.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at the press conference held at the headquarters in Geneva, only 15 million new cases were reported to WHO last week. explained. This number has increased since the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic. Highest number of global COVID-19 cases per week broke the record.

We should not accept the death figures

Ghebreyesus, although Omicron causes less severe disease compared to Delta is still dangerous stressed. Ghebreyesus stated that the weekly death toll is almost 50 thousand and this is too much.Learning to live with the virus shouldn’t mean we accept these death figures.” he said.

WHO Director-General Ghebreyesus reminded that 40% of the population in 90 countries is still not vaccinated against COVID-19, and stated that it is not possible to effectively combat the epidemic without closing the gap in vaccinations. Then he reminded again that the priority was on the first dose of vaccinations rather than the booster dose and said that the number of those hospitalized that the vast majority are unvaccinated told.

If precautions are not taken, higher case numbers will be seen in the coming weeks:

Maria Van Kerkhove, the leader of the WHO’s fight against COVID-19, made a statement at the meeting, and if we continue in the same way in her statement, in the coming days. We will continue to see more cases. Kerkhove’s explanation was as follows:

“We’re seeing the Omicron variant spread very effectively among humans. We will see higher case numbers in the coming weeks if we allow this variant to spread in its current form. Currently, we are not in a position to prevent all transmissions, but we can limit the spread of the virus. We can also reduce the high number of cases that are currently emerging. We can reduce the severity of COVID-19 with vaccines.”

Kerkhove puts his words “Although less severe than the Delta variant, Omicron still hospitalizes and kills people.“It ended with a warning.